AN: This is actually something I had to write for AP Lit in the Modernist style, and I liked it so much I felt I just had to post it.
Enjoy.
- CDrake
Darkness, the black of night,
Essence of sadness and fright.
It used to make me wonder
Whether I'd be torn asunder,
If I was meant to live or die or break,
If I could from the shadows my escape make.
If I chanced a look outside my room,
I was sure I would perish horribly.
After all, I was just a child,
Alone and weak and shaking terribly.
The fear of night never really left me.
In the dark, signs of life are your enemy.
It's said no one's really afraid of the dark,
Only of being alone in it.
But the dark itself is company,
And not the kind I like to frequent.
Isolation and uncertainty are its groomsmen,
Its brides chaos, danger, and ruin.
The wedding party of this kingpin
Is a paralytic agent, a right rocuronium.
I'm frozen and broken and unable to think;
My fear of falling as I lie on the brink.
I stare and glare at the black beyond my closet door,
My impotent anger the only way to calm my racing ticker.
Years later I still rage and roar inside,
Though more at myself than the blackest night.
The brightest days are still tinged with gray,
When my resolve weakens, my will breaks,
When the evil of my singularity reigns,
And my reddened cheeks hide from others' sight.
I am alone, but for the dark,
Tainted company but ever constant.
But when I embrace the pain, power through it,
My ring of power ever verdant,
A pinprick of light is all I need
To banish the darkness, to make it flee.
When my constructs fail and hope is slight,
I remind myself I am an Emerald Knight,
Hope of the stars, tip of the spear—
My life to serve, to banish fear.
To keep the innocent and righteous free,
My constant cry and oath will be:
"In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight.
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!"
